A little money, a little faith

When you compare the percent of money given through tithing of a Christian or Jewish person or the zakat  of a Muslim to the amount handed over by people who have been talked into giving everything they own to a certain group, these offerings to a church community start to look very reasonable.  What I mean is that if anyone ever comes across as some sort for saint or holy person and they ask you to give all you have to them or sell all you have and give them your money in order to follow them, then you run from them like a gazelle.  God is already all and everything, so you having an independent home and living by your faith in God as part of a community is more wonderful to God than living by faith in a community being fully controlled and run by one leader or a small group of leaders.  True living in faith is living in God and moving through your life as God moves your individual being, as a portion of the whole with an equal share in all the love and enlightenment in the world as any other being.  But love and enlightenment are born within you, not in some other person or group.  Having a guide is great, but giving everything with full control of your life to someone else or some group puts you at the mercy of their will, not the will of God.  
God wants you to love and guide the world to understanding, which can only be done when you understand all that love is under God.  The love of God does not need money to make changes in this world, but we see the world and we decide to work with societal situations therefore we use money to try and make grace a little more evenly spread across the earth.  Many religions ask for a portion of your money and they seem to use it to help the community around them.  Generally they are doing nice things and trying to help people in many ways with some of the money they get, but still the church has employees and some of the money gives them livelihood.  
I hear a voice in the back of my head asking me about Jesus; so I will remind that voice what Jesus advised.  Now here was a man willing to die within and for his faith in God, nowhere in his stories do we here him asking people to give him money in order to follow him.  In Matthew 19:21 he says to a young rich man, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."  That request was to release your life to God completely and follow Jesus  who had faith in God at the front of his existence and his request was for the young man to do the same.  Jesus has left the earth, and I have not met anyone who has had the same energy in this world, so I am still living in a house and supporting my family by making an income and letting money pass through my bank account.  I give money to my church, hoping they use it wisely and I live with faith as a veil in front of me, not quite as thick as I would like, but it is there.  
Living as a faith filled portion of God you may find a community that asks you to share some of the burden as they do what they can through pooling money and assisting the worlds people, and really that is not so bad.  
Live your life, beware power hungry leaders of any kind, and love yourself, the world and everything.  If you ever decide to give away everything and follow the lifestyle of faith that Jesus asked the young man to do, the know that it is a choice to live a life of poverty, with a faith that what you need will come to you for survival.  A life of survival is not as easy as one may think, and if you look at Jesus and his group of twelve, they had a guide that did a bit of entertaining which made people want him to come eat at their tables.  But they also spent time foraging for food in the field just like a poor person was allowed to do in that day.  You have to follow your own faith, but you need not lose your inner wisdom to do so, think things through and know that God gave you both the heart and the brain; I assume there is a reason for that.  
Love 

PEACE 

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